LAFF
4th EDITION
16-21 March, 2015
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Who Are We
Independent Shabab Foundation
The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is one of ISF’s projects. It was the writer Sayed Fouad’s idea, as the African films are almost not screened in Egypt. Furthermore, Luxor hardly has any cultural or artistic events, and was therefore selected to de-centralize cultural or artistic events always oraginzed in Cairo and Alexandria.
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Though Luxor is the largest open-air museum in the world it was lacking artistic festivals. Its geographical position - in the very heart of Upper Egypt and hence closer to the rest of the African continent - gives the historic city a unique advantage .
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ETISAL Fund
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A PLATFORM FOR A NEW AFRICAN FILM MART TO CONNECT THE AFRICAN FILM TO THE REST OF THE WORLD
ETISAL’s mission is to provide to the needs of young African filmmakers in expressing freely their skills and talents through filmmaking and promote their work globally.
African short films is a “life savior” of young filmmakers (Aged between 18-30 of both genders) who are marginalized in terms of production and distribution. Although young filmmakers rep...
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Long Narratives Competition:
1- Mbeubeuss: le terreau de l'espoir (Senegal)
2- Umutoma: Sweet Nothing (Rwanda)
3- Beti & Amar (Ethiopia)
4- Narrow Frame of Midnight (Morocco)
5- Run (Côte d'Ivoire)
6- Bella (Malawi)
7- L'Enfant du Soleil (Tunisia)
8- October One (Nigeria)
9- Eva (Burkina Faso)
10- L'OEil du Cyclone (Burkina Faso)Long Documentaries Competition:
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1- (Éxamen d'État) National Diploma (Congo)
2- Ady Gasy: T... - Past Editions
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Latest News
The management of Luxor African Film Festival has announced the films selected of the 4th edition that will take place 16-22 March, 2015
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For the first time ever ETISAL launches a program to developing feature films in collaboration with Luxor African Film Festival
Read MoreAbout Independent Shabab Foundation
The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is one of ISF’s projects. It was the writer Sayed Fouad’s idea, as the African films are almost not screened in Egypt. Furthermore, Luxor hardly has any cultural or artistic events, and was therefore selected to de-centralize cultural or artistic events always oraginzed in Cairo and Alexandria.
For the first time in Egypt , an NGO organizes an event with such grand calibre and high standards. Independent Shabab Foundation (ISF) which organizes LAFF is a non-profit entity that has been active for more than six years organizing events and festivals at a national level and with a political dimension.
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